Prof. Laura Shepherd, Nuri Veronika1
1Monash University, Australia
Biography:
Nuri Veronika received her PhD from Monash University’s School of Social and Political Science in May 2024. Her expertise encompasses women’s agency in the Global South, violent extremism, PVE, gender and security sectors. Before her PhD, she worked at the Indonesian Coordinating Ministry for Political and Security Affairs. She is currently an Affiliate Fellow at Monash Global Peace and Security Centre and an (upcoming) visiting scholar at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technical University (NTU), Singapore.
Abstract:
Forms of international justice rely on carceral, racialized, and gendered logics. This panel brings together three papers that focus on different aspects of the contemporary international justice architecture: the mechanisms authorised by the United Nations under the Women, Peace and Security agenda; the functioning of hybrid courts in transitional justice programs; and the governance of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeeping forces. The authors examine evidence from each of these contexts and draw on feminist, decolonial, and abolitionist theory to explore how justice might be differently imagined through the lens of liberation.